Alex timeline RSSAlex timeline RSS2019-05-25T05:45:11+0000In Kailua the sand is soft and white, the water is clear and calm, and the view is exactly what you would expect from a Hawaii beach.
Those are among the reasons Oahu’s Kailua Beach Park has been selected as the best stretch of sand for an annual list of top U.S. beaches.
Stephen Leatherman, a coastal scientist and professor at Florida International University, has been drafting the list under the alias “Dr. Beach” since 1991.
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How hard can it possibly be to lay forward with just your forearms and toes touching the ground? The answer is very and almost everybody has their legs shaking after just a few minutes.
However, if your name is Dana Glowacka, then we're not talking in minutes but hours.
The Montrealer set an astonishing new world-record in the women's plank this month, clocking an eye-watering time of 4 hours and 20 minutes at the First International Plank Training Conference.
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The asteroid, which was discovered 20 years ago, is dubbed by NASA as Asteroid 1999 KW4, and is expected to be visible until May 27.
Despite its “potentially hazardous” classification by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Minor Planet Center, Asteroid 1999 KW4 is expected to pass by Earth safely at 23:05 UTC.
The closest distance the space rock is expected to be from Earth is estimated to be 3,216,271 miles—or 13.5 times the distance to the moon, reported the Mail Online.
The asteroid is described by the Las Cumbres Observatory as “slightly squashed at the poles and with a mountain ridge around the equator, which runs all the way around the asteroid.
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Nearly all of them were caught before they had a chance to become “active” users of the social network.
In a new report, Facebook said it saw a “steep increase” in the creation of abusive, fake accounts. While most of these fake accounts were blocked “within minutes” of their creation, the use of computers to generate millions of accounts at a time meant not only that Facebook caught more of the fake accounts, but that more of them slipped through.
As a result, the company estimates that 5% of its 2.4 billion monthly active users are fake accounts, or about 119 million. This is up from an estimated 3% to 4% in the previous six-month report.
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